Record Number: LIB0002

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: ‘The Boat now neared . . . lake seemed to advance’ [5 lines]

Keyword(s): Boats - Caves - Highlanders - Lakes - Moonlight - Waverley, Edward

Artist: Birket Foster

Engraver: William Forrest

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.5 x 9

Date: 1852

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Library Edition] (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1852-53)

Position in Source Text: vol. 1 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, Hall.279.a & b

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts a rowing boat carrying several Highlanders, one apparently representing Waverley in military uniform, as it enters a cave on the lake by moonlight, as two figures tend to a fire guiding them in on the left [Ch. 17; EEWN 1, 85.14-18].

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